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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked fact-checkers on Monday, saying that they were guilty of “false equivalency” and “bias” in correcting her mistakes.

In a series of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez attacked both the Washington Post and PolitiFact.

Facts are facts, America. We should care about getting things right. Yet standards of who gets fact-checked, how often + why are unclear.

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Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez lashed out at fact - checkers just days after taking office, accusing them of Ocasio - Cortez , D-N.Y., has been called out by fact - checkers at a steady clip since her upset Her argument was not so much that the columns were wrong but that they should be scrutinizing the

In case you missed it, The Post had run a piece titled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s $21 trillion mistake” on December 4, and Politifact ran a similar piece. Both pointed out that she had misunderstood or misrepresented data when she claimed that “Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon” in a tweet.

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Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez decided to slam even liberal fact checkers in the media, she probably wasn't These are legitimate questions not intended to attack . Who makes these decisions? Ocasio - Cortez is trying to sign people up for what’s inarguably the largest government usurpation of

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Everyone makes mistakes — I know that I have — but dealing with it by attacking the fact-checkers who pointed them out is absolutely ludicrous. It’s even more ludicrous to attack them on grounds of “bias,” as if President Trump has never been fact-checked. In fact, as Washington Post columnist Sal Rizzo (the author of the column that Ocasio-Cortez attacked) pointed out in a tweet, “there’s a big difference between the colossal amount of time we spend fact-checking Trump (7,645 false/misleading claims and counting) and TWO fact-checks of @AOC.”

It’s true: The Post fact-checks Trump often. So often that it’s completely bizarre to see Ocasio-Cortez actually accuse the publication of somehow being biased in favor of him. Truly, I have no idea how she was able to write that tweet and press send without thinking about how totally ridiculous she sounded, and I can’t believe that more people aren’t talking about it.

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Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez , the Democratic nominee for New York’s 14th Congressional District, wrongly claimed that the low U.S. unemployment rate In fact , the rate of employed people who hold multiple jobs was 4.9 percent in June, slightly lower than the 5.1 rate when unemployment peaked at

Ocasio - Cortez really has fumbled a few facts . Most notably, she incorrectly stated that leaks in the Pentagon budget could finance a big portion of Pretty much everything Trump says is wrong or deceptive and they do a good job pointing that out. But occasionally they are astoundingly sloppy

Factual errors matter — especially when they’re coming from politicians who are discussing policies and proposals that are going to actually affect Americans. It’s wrong when Trump does it, and it’s wrong when Ocasio-Cortez does it, too. Telling lies about the way that some of her pie-in-the-sky programs could be funded could easily lead to people supporting them without realizing that their support lies apart from reality. It could wind up leading to her proposals getting more popularity than they deserve based on the facts, which is particularly scary when you consider the socialist direction her proposals would take our country. She shouldn’t get a pass on spreading false information just because she is a Democrat or because she sees herself as morally superior to Trump. Facts are facts, and when you get them wrong, you deserve to be called out. All that she or any other person can do is be more careful with the information that she spreads — because false information can have real consequences.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speech broke C-SPAN record.
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., made C-SPAN history on Wednesday during her first speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. Ocasio-Cortez, 29, addressed her colleagues on Capitol Hill for nearly four minutes, talking about one of her constituents in the Bronx — an air traffic controller who recently missed his first paycheck due to the partial government shutdown. Her speech was posted to C-SPAN's Twitter account, and, according to Howard Mortman, communication director for the public cable network, it became the "most-viewed" video of a House member's remarks ever tweeted by the channel.

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